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Jobless adgrunt puts CV on billboard

Marco Duehrkopp unemployed adgrunt in Germany has recieved dozens of job offers after putting his CV up on billboard in Hamburg's busiest media and advertising district.

"Having gone through all the traditional job-hunting methods, there really only was one thing remaining," he told the Berliner Zeitung newspaper.

He subsequently received almost 100 offers, though many were for door to door sales posts, ananova reports.

The man depicted is not Mr Marco Duehrkopp, but Pete Cain (London, UK) pulling a prank in the early days of his adcareer while he was on placement, circa 1994. He did get a job in advertising later, several in fact as he worked at the Leith Agency, BBH London and at Lowe and Partners Worldwide.

pete didn't need a budget. the headline of that poster needed to be updated often during the day to correspond with the actual headlines in "live from mike" - so he just hijacked the sign for his own needs. ;-)